you have to understand that it's portability that's the most important-not how big a hard drive you can fit in there.

don't store your photos, important documents on the laptop. you havethe icloud for that. for those that are paranoid that server farms get hackedall the time, store your stuff in ext hdd, usb sticks, discs, etc.

leave the onboard ssd for core stuff (os, apps). believe me, it'll run muchmore efficiently, and just as fast as the first day you turned it on.

scoobydooby

Senior Member - 2K

posted: Oct. 9, 2012 @ 9:55a

icameisawibought said: Is 64GB going to be enough for me?

That depends - what do you plan to do with it?

Once you consider the OS, all the iWork stuff, Photoshop and Microsoft Office, you'll be around 23GB. That doesn't leave all that much for anything else.

The cloud can help with some of that, but there are plenty of times that the cloud can't be reached. Personally I'd never go with anything that small - especially since upgrading is so tough. I'd go for the 4GB/128GB from day one.

cashew

New Member

posted: Oct. 9, 2012 @ 10:26a

scoobydooby is right (green for you) , not upgradable. Here is a extensive review of this unit by users:

I don't consider myself a pack rat but a 64gb system drive is too small for any machine that will get any sort of heavy or regular use. By the time you install all your apps and key files I'd be down to about 20 gigs and I think that is limiting to the point of always having to mess with file management offloading things to the cloud or external media.

Given the price of SSD's nowadays for me personally it is just not worth it. Pay yourself $40/hr for your time and that little 64gb drive starts costing you money fast.

I never mess with the file management and I use this same machine for hours everyday- all the time. It has what I need on it, plenty of room for the apps and music I need and use regularily. You have to pick the specs that fit your needs. This machine is certainly not a one size fits all nor is it any thing close to a powerhouse or gaming machine. But is is small, light, blazing fast and extrememly reliable. I only feel that way becasue it fits my needs. I "over purchased" machines for years. It was a hard habit to break.

scottxmso

Senior Member - 4K

posted: Oct. 9, 2012 @ 1:32p

g10ny said: scoobydooby said: youngcrv said: How hard is it to upgrade RAM on an Air? Its pretty easy (and cheap) on most laptops.

You can't. It is soldered to the board. Which makes the 2GB even sadder.

Reminds me of the moment when I saw a 1st gen iPod in a display at Museum of Modern Art.

At least on those, you could pop out the hard drive and put in a new one if you wanted to. You're going to have a much harder time upgrading the memory on the Air.

Netbooks’ marquee desirable feature has always been their small form factor; but unfortunately, screens and keyboards have up to now tended to be too small to be comfortable for production work sessions, and underpowered processors that have made them sluggish and frustrating to use. The smaller 11.6-inch MacBook Air, with its 1366 x 768 resolution display and full-sized keyboard, is really the ultimate small form-factor laptop that will appeal to a lot of executives and road warriors in business and other professional or power user use.

If you are the kind of person that must make every penny count, this is not for you.If you are the kind of person that can only have one computer, this is not for you.If you want to rip your entire DVD and CD collection, this is not for you.If you want to play (insert your favorite PC game here), this is not for you.If you want to move effortlessly through an airport, pull some pictures or video off your camera [or] run mainstream business software, this definitely is for you!

poorfatkid said: Netbook? If it is a netbook it's the best one ever at a nice price.

Netbooks’ marquee desirable feature has always been their small form factor; but unfortunately, screens and keyboards have up to now tended to be too small to be comfortable for production work sessions, and underpowered processors that have made them sluggish and frustrating to use. The smaller 11.6-inch MacBook Air, with its 1366 x 768 resolution display and full-sized keyboard, is really the ultimate small form-factor laptop that will appeal to a lot of executives and road warriors in business and other professional or power user use.

If you are the kind of person that must make every penny count, this is not for you.If you are the kind of person that can only have one computer, this is not for you.If you want to rip your entire DVD and CD collection, this is not for you.If you want to play (insert your favorite PC game here), this is not for you.If you want to move effortlessly through an airport, pull some pictures or video off your camera [or] run mainstream business software, this definitely is for you!

Is there a badge for this ? After a long time, I have seen a post saying this deal is NOT for you. nice!

youngcrv said: How hard is it to upgrade RAM on an Air? Its pretty easy (and cheap) on most laptops.

about as easy as upgrading the ram on an ipod touch or an iphone.

clearanceman

Senior Member - 10K

posted: Oct. 10, 2012 @ 6:01p

scottxmso said: g10ny said: scoobydooby said: youngcrv said: How hard is it to upgrade RAM on an Air? Its pretty easy (and cheap) on most laptops.

You can't. It is soldered to the board. Which makes the 2GB even sadder.

Reminds me of the moment when I saw a 1st gen iPod in a display at Museum of Modern Art.

At least on those, you could pop out the hard drive and put in a new one if you wanted to. You're going to have a much harder time upgrading the memory on the Air.

Apple is supposed to be so green but they are leaving a trail of millions of disposable products behind them. They never heard of a user replaceable battery or micro SD slot. This air may have a user replaceable battery but the iphone and ipod touch don't nor micro SD card. This air has no replaceable ram.

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